"Find people to be with who share your values and commitments, and who also have a sense of humor."
-Howard Zinn-
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"I believe people exist to be enjoyed... as the ocean or drifting clouds might be."
-Alice Walker-
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On how daydreaming improves efficiancy, assists creativity and regulates emotions:
"We are not computers, not machines. We have more in common with flowers than microchips."
-Rose Marie Berger-
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"I often wondered whether it is right to scream when you are beaten and trampled underfoot... I decided that it is better to scream... It is a man's way of leaving a trace, of telling people how he lived and died. By his screams he asserts his right to live... silence is the real crime against humanity."
-Nadezhda Mandelstam-
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"Hope is folding paper cranes even when your hands get cramped and your eyes tired, working past blisters and paper cuts, simply because something in you insists on opening its wings."
-Elizabeth Barrette-
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A note scribbled in the margins of a line that reads "Hope is not the same as optimism."
Optimism is a perspective. Hope is a practice. Optimism as a way of seeing the world, and hope as a way of walking the world.
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